Allo.
Well February 21st saw us back to full strength after the Valentine break and with no need to play horrible love songs or gushy generic professions of love it was back to business!!
News covered included the continuing breakout of rebellion in the Middle East and North Africa which is harrowing, shocking, intriguing and only softened by the silly name of Bahrains capital made famous by the muppets - Manama! Other hot topics of news included the Post Office using too many rubber bands and an Australian town changing its name form Speed to SpeedKills for a month as part of a safety campaign.
I ranted over 2 issues - Firstly local papers feeling the need to point out when a drink driver, burglar or flasher is a father as this somehow makes it worse. Are fathers suddenly not allowed to make mistakes?
Also the issue surrounding Prisoner voting was put to bed once and for all (for me anyway) by asking the question differently - Why are prisoners excused from their duty to vote? Some are worryingly apathetic towards this, some agree, but alarmingly some people think that our Prisons are over flowing with drug taking, child killing, drink driving, murderers and paedophiles who will use their vote to elect someone who will let all prisoners out and free to murder, rape and pillage before being awarded 5 bedroom mansions and ferraris for their trouble.
But the highlight of the show was the live set from Van Susans.
In fact I am sure by the December they will turn out to be a highlight of the year!
Their songs are beautifully crafted and precisely performed with superb lyrics with an easy to instantly fl in love with style! And they were all so damned good looking!!
Check out the video we made and let them know what you think on their Facebook page.
I really can't state how much we like this band cannot wait to see them live again. There new single Plans is out now and you can buy it here or here and watch the video made with their fans here! You will not be disappointed!
SO we move on upwards on onwards and look forward to next weeks show!!
Fizzer!
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Wheels, Phil, Daisy and Rosco!
Allo,
No Blog last week, Jake forgot, he was busy working on his nods of approval!
So to recap on January 31st we had a busy busy busy show.
We were very lucky to be joined by Phil Dillon and Daisy Parris ahead of their joint exhibition of art and photography. And when I say art I mean the good stuff. Daisy's pictures and objects are entirely unpretentious (like her), thoughtful (like her), very easy to admire (like her) and beautifully scattered around the walls of a gallery (like, well art). Alongside Phil's photographs which are not taken by someone who can just point a camera well or can use photoshop to good effect but by a man who IS a photographer and captures moods, scenes, thoughts and somehow a feeling of sound in his work. You only have until the 26th of February to see the exhibition so don't delay!
After they scarpered we crammed the ever so popular Wheels into the studio for a chat and a live performances. Now Wheels do have the prettiest bass player I have ever seen (OK bass players aren't meant to be and the competition is not hard) but to our eternal shame we had to keep Anna in the cupboard as they played! Check out the video and try and see the lesser spotted Bass Beauty! Wheels members are all articulate, friendly, interesting and engaging just like their music! It is hard to describe their sound so follow the link and find out for yourself. (you won't regret it).
On the Friday we had a "staff" outing to first the exhibition and then The Command House. (we were hoping to visit the exhibition gig at The Nags Head in between but due to a combination of alcohol and the cold weather the warm pull of the Command House Bar kept us busy!) . We saw 4 great bands The Blissful Mop, Archie Wah Wahs, Gentlemen Duke and Theatre Royal. It was another great line up form Suburban kings and a night I'm sure many of you would of enjoyed!
So after that eventful week we had another guest in the Studio we were joined by Rosco Levee (pronounced Levy) from The Rosco Levee Band who played a small solo set and chatted about his experiences and ambitions. If you missed the show you can listen again soon and also watch a small video we made too. Rosco was in Jakes words "probably the best singer we have ever had in" and no doubt fully deserving of the Jake nod in the film!!
Some very good news we found out this week was the figures from the listen again section of our website. In the 4 days after the 31st January show over 70 individual people listened again! And from the following countries , UK (obviously) Ireland (family probably) France (i dunno) Russia (oh come on really?) USA (they probably didn't get it) and Colombia(???????). SO big thanks to all those spreading the word about our show!!!!
Next week we may or may not be joined by Dave from The Flowing, then the following week the Van Susans. More on them next week!
Exciting news for fans of The Medway City Status Bid (fans?) the very vocal Peter Cook will be joining us live in the Studio to discuss this as well as his new music! We have invited the council(city wannabes) into the studio too so watch this space for an update in the future!
Cool
Fizzer!!!!
No Blog last week, Jake forgot, he was busy working on his nods of approval!
So to recap on January 31st we had a busy busy busy show.
We were very lucky to be joined by Phil Dillon and Daisy Parris ahead of their joint exhibition of art and photography. And when I say art I mean the good stuff. Daisy's pictures and objects are entirely unpretentious (like her), thoughtful (like her), very easy to admire (like her) and beautifully scattered around the walls of a gallery (like, well art). Alongside Phil's photographs which are not taken by someone who can just point a camera well or can use photoshop to good effect but by a man who IS a photographer and captures moods, scenes, thoughts and somehow a feeling of sound in his work. You only have until the 26th of February to see the exhibition so don't delay!
After they scarpered we crammed the ever so popular Wheels into the studio for a chat and a live performances. Now Wheels do have the prettiest bass player I have ever seen (OK bass players aren't meant to be and the competition is not hard) but to our eternal shame we had to keep Anna in the cupboard as they played! Check out the video and try and see the lesser spotted Bass Beauty! Wheels members are all articulate, friendly, interesting and engaging just like their music! It is hard to describe their sound so follow the link and find out for yourself. (you won't regret it).
On the Friday we had a "staff" outing to first the exhibition and then The Command House. (we were hoping to visit the exhibition gig at The Nags Head in between but due to a combination of alcohol and the cold weather the warm pull of the Command House Bar kept us busy!) . We saw 4 great bands The Blissful Mop, Archie Wah Wahs, Gentlemen Duke and Theatre Royal. It was another great line up form Suburban kings and a night I'm sure many of you would of enjoyed!
So after that eventful week we had another guest in the Studio we were joined by Rosco Levee (pronounced Levy) from The Rosco Levee Band who played a small solo set and chatted about his experiences and ambitions. If you missed the show you can listen again soon and also watch a small video we made too. Rosco was in Jakes words "probably the best singer we have ever had in" and no doubt fully deserving of the Jake nod in the film!!
Some very good news we found out this week was the figures from the listen again section of our website. In the 4 days after the 31st January show over 70 individual people listened again! And from the following countries , UK (obviously) Ireland (family probably) France (i dunno) Russia (oh come on really?) USA (they probably didn't get it) and Colombia(???????). SO big thanks to all those spreading the word about our show!!!!
Next week we may or may not be joined by Dave from The Flowing, then the following week the Van Susans. More on them next week!
Exciting news for fans of The Medway City Status Bid (fans?) the very vocal Peter Cook will be joining us live in the Studio to discuss this as well as his new music! We have invited the council(city wannabes) into the studio too so watch this space for an update in the future!
Cool
Fizzer!!!!
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